A trans couple has been brutalized by a mob, and then the trans woman ended up being arrested afterwards, at a public bathroom in Louisiana. EITM writer S Baum investigates this horrible act of violence in our latest piece. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

Trans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By Police

An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.

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Exactly. That's when all that Run the Jewels talk went down the drain foreal

Vera Walker@indyugh.bsky.social · 19m ago

I'll never forget Please Don't Kill Em Mike getting up there on that podium crying because Atlantans were distressing his cop friends by protesting for Rayshard Brooks and George Floyd

This is why I think it’s important to highlight how the status quo everyday background banal white supremacy is critical to building support for the more spectacular version everyone openly detests as “gutter” racism.

A lot of people, if not a considerable majority, occupy that passive acceptance as the status quo space, so what more rabid white supremacists have done is effectively create a motte and bailey argument where they get to push their ideas for global genocide and then retreat to the status quo bias.

I think a good way to think about the current moment is understanding white supremacy as a spectrum with passive acceptance as the status quo out to actively arguing for global genocide.

i also have a short term goal of $200, im af $50 already—thank you so much! i REALLY need to restock on the stuff thaf helps my sjogrens (which is basically my body does not produce enough moisture and its VERY painful!), those are $100 alone—can anyone match? 💕💸💕

HOMELESS: SHARE PINNED PLZ@adrianmica.bsky.social · 3h ago

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If you could make a graph in which the X-axis represents the quality of an artist's music and the Y-axis represents the quality of an artist's character, some artists really are STRICTLY THIRD QUADRANT and should be avoided

Please help Britt, I have known them since before they were homeless. They did not deserve this, nobody does @liminalclown-e.bsky.social

Alabama Mutual Aid Collective@alabamamuaidc.bsky.social · 18h ago

Y'all, my friend is in need of a lot of support. They have been homeless for over a year, while severely disabled, Black, and nonbinary. They're one of the most vulnerable amongst us. They need money for food, they have to repay a loan, and need shelter funds. #MutualAid #HelpFolksLive #HelpSky

I meant "not-sexy" parts

The thing that's annoying me is that tiktok is filled with young writers who aren't that experienced if at all and that they're going to take this shit as gospel and will never learn that the not-sext parts of writing will make them a better writer.

Right. If people just said they're happy or in love and kept it moving, there wouldn't be much to discuss. The people making a fuss don't talk about loving their partners as much as having disdain for a whole group

believe it or not, if you known how i am, i don't have any issue with "interracial dating/marriage" ON ITS BARE FACE. it's all the shit that goes INTO interracial dating. it's all the reasons behind why. and it's the fact that antiblackness has not slowed or stopped whatsoever sooooooo...?

thank you, Sean, bc when Black women say it...

a close up of a woman 's face with her eyes closed and her hair in a ponytail .

ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with her eyes closed and her hair in a ponytail .

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Sean Padilla (He/They) Will Write a Good Song About Anything@seanpadilla.blacksky.app · 5mo ago

Just had to tell another Black man “Are they still ‘White devils’ when you’re fucking them” And this is the SECOND person I’ve said this to TODAY Let me go hide in a cave

I cannot and do not wish to police what ANYONE ELSE does but I wish Black men in particular would be more ideologically consistent I want us to stop pretending to be Dr. Umar in public while acting like Elon James White in private

and black artists just be kickin it with him like its nbfd

Fuck Eric Clapton, now and forever

It’s the 50th anniversary of the time Eric Clapton went onstage and told everyone who wasn’t British to leave the room and the country, and was the impetus for Rock Against Racism

they reeeeeeeeeeeaaalllyyy want to start that 🏃🏻🏃🏿🏃🏼🏃🏽🪖🫯💣

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 33m ago

Christine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, has learned that the Mississippi Board of Nursing opened a professional misconduct investigation against her following an anonymous complaint, the family’s lawyer said. www.mississippifreepress.org/nolan-wells-...

She’s being swatted by racists. Throw the complaint out. I hope she sues the person who filed it.

I was interviewed by Colorado Public Radio about how the the current FCC Commissioner is working to eliminate diversity in media ownership, local reporting, and viewpoint by ignoring Congressional oversight.

FCC expected to get rid of ownership caps for local TV

The FCC chair pushing the move says it will help local news, but others disagree. Vote will determine the future of television news across the country.

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💀💀💀

Part of the reason I said this. There must be a way, past slogans and cutesy art (now powered by genAI, to tickle the brain but not get it to think). A damn shame it is. bsky.app/profile/erin...

The Erinaceous One@erinaceousphd.blacksky.app · 57m ago

Also, while I’m here, I’m tired of the commodification of everything “Black girl” but nary a Black girl age-wise is found. Adult women (35+, 40+, 45+) still pursuing girlhood, meanwhile we’re grown. There has to be a better way.

For real. They got a pic of his head all bowed down like he really gives a shit 🙄

y'all i had a christian woman approach me at the bus stop JUST to argue with me once, because i was in hijab, to tell me jesus was god, not allah. and she argued me DOWN when i said the name allah is god in another language. she said "well idc, arab christians are wrong!"

Mekka Okereke@mekka.mekka-tech.com · 3h ago

For uneducated Americans only (because almost everyone else in the world knows this already): "Inshallah" is not a Muslim phrase. Inshallah is an Arabic phrase. Christians that speak Arabic, say inshallah. "Allah" is how you say God in Arabic. "Inshallah" is how you say "God willing" in Arabic.

Miami University: All academic departments at Miami to integrate artificial intelligence into the curriculum by 2027-2028 "If it's this embedded in the world, then it needs to be embedded in the learning and in the coursework" miamioh.edu/news/2026/08...

The dirtier the deed, the more exaggerated the fake remorse.

They didn't get played. They're complicit.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 38m ago

Trump filed a kleptocratic lawsuit against the federal government that itself could be grounds for impeachment. Any settlement in such circumstances is intolerable—and Cornyn and Tillis surely understand this. trib.al/hpRD6Op

"wow, dark skin. i want this on my wall." "wow, plus size. what a beautiful expression" yes, it is BUT dig DEEPER than that! don't be gullible. and don't try so hard to prove you/your people are human. if you already know this you don't need to prove it to those who don't

still the same account you unfollowed 🤷🏾@blackapostate.blacksky.app · 45m ago

it's just like everything saying MELANIN for 10 years. that pic of the black girl with the afro and graffiti in her hair (which was also plagiarized from an actual artist's style too). or putting crowns over all black people heads. it's just other iterations of that

"Why are you using the fact that ppl can't afford food and rent as a metric for how well the economy is doing? You are not as smart as me."

"It doesn't matter that your own material needs are not met, that you live in fear and can't afford food. If you were reasonable you would understand that me having power is the most important thing for us to focus on." That's how these pols AND talking heads sound.